The 2019 23rd Annual Third-Party Logistics Study shows that shippers and their 3PL providers are increasingly moving toward meaningful partnerships and working together to accomplish their supply chain goals.
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The 2020 24th Annual Third-Party Logistics Study shows that shippers and their third-party logistics providers continue to enhance their relationships and work together to accomplish supply chain goals and objectives.
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During the past year, supply chains were tested domestically and abroad, and shippers and 3PLs have collaborated to meet demand and minimize the effect of drastic swings in capacity.
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The 2022 26th Annual Third Party Logistics Study investigates leading trends into the ways in which shippers and 3PLs can collaborate to drive value in the supply chain. The study also highlights trends and issues that likely will be impactful for the future state of logistics outsourcing.
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The 2023 27th Annual Third Party Logistics Study investigates leading trends into the ways in which shippers and 3PLs can collaborate to drive value in the supply chain. The study also highlights trends and issues that likely will be impactful for the future state of logistics outsourcing.
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The 2024 28th Annual Third Party Logistics Study investigates leading trends into the ways in which shippers and 3PLs can collaborate to drive value in the supply chain. The study also highlights trends and issues that likely will be impactful for the future state of logistics outsourcing.
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DSM Manufacturing has been around for 100 years. In that time, the company has grown considerably in size and is now a global enterprise. With the global expanse, DSM is now facing new challenges, leaving executives to determine what the next steps are in running an efficient supply chain, those that a network analysis will not necessarily address. This case study illustrates DSM's process in forming an efficient supply chain.
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BP has interest in both upstream and downstream segments in over 100 countries worldwide. The United States subsidiary of BP is the nation’s largest producer of oil and gas. This case focuses on the upstream procurement activities in the Gulf of Mexico.
Written by Arunachalam Narayanan, Malini Natarajarathinam, & Brandon Winn.
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In this case study, Oklahoma Goodwill Industries faces a unique demand planning situation - all of its inventory is donated rather than purchased, which means volume and variety are completely unknown. This plays havoc with the non-profit's logistics and transportation management functions, which students are challenged to address.
Written by Chad W. Autry, Ph.D., University of Tennessee.
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This case study deals with the shipment challenges of transporting donated baby foods from Basel, Switzerland to Lusaka, Zambia. It highlights the “last mile” challenges that can sometimes be experienced during the transportation of humanitarian goods to less developed regions of the world.
Written by David B. Velleng, Maine Maritime Academy & LCC International University.
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Aucksun Metal Co. Ltd. is a metal processing and logistics company for the IT industry in China. This case study addresses how a 3PL company operates in China and describes the implementation of a forward purchasing strategy as well as associated advantages and challenges at the company.
Written by Amy Z. Zeng, Ph.D, Lindu Zhao, Ph.D. & Jing Hou.
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This case study illustrates the significance and intricacy of MRO (maintenance, repair and operations) procurement and the major problems encountered in managing and analyzing the total spends. Concepts such as vendor information management, supplier selection and evaluation, supply base management, blanket purchase orders, consolidation, and process management are addressed in the case.
Amy Z. Zeng, PhD & Michael J. Fitzpatrick, Department... Details
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This case study addresses issues, pros and cons involved in relocating parts of the supply chain to China as well as implementation challenges in actually moving off-shore. The case helps identify that relocating parts of the supply chain might be harder than often considered and that the case for might not be as straightforward as generally thought to be.
Written by Remko van Hoek & Mark Johnson, Cranfield School of Management, UK. ... Details
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This case study provides an overview of how a purchasing organization can try to gain a foothold in an area of spending in which it has not been involved in the past. The legal group had been spending hundreds of millions of dollars on outside purchases with no meaningful involvement from purchasing, until a new Director came on board and purchasing to participate in the transformation of legal spending.
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Fashion-oriented product assortments are often problematic to supply chain managers due to short product life cycles, high SKU counts, frequent product rotations, inaccurate demand forecasts, and excessive amounts of obsolete inventory. This case study provides an opportunity for students to implement postponement strategies at a wallpaper company in order to meet customer service and inventory turnover requirements for large retailers.
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This case study illustrates the use of the total cost of ownership concept to analyze and compare two supply chains • one international and one domestic. The case provides an opportunity to calculate economic order quantity and safety stock quantities and then combine purchase price, shipping costs, and inventory carrying costs to quantify the differences between the two supply chains.
Written by Dr. Ted Farris, PhD, CTL, University of North... Details
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This case study focuses on cash flow problems and foreign competition have put employee-owned Kramer Sports on the brink of bankruptcy. In response, Kramer has been implementing lean principles in its factory for one year to lower inventory and production costs but has experienced only limited success. Why is Kramer failing to adopt lean when thousands of companies have succeeded at it.
Written by Steve Medland & Susan L. Golicic, PhD ,... Details
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This case study integrates professional ethical dilemmas in the context of a quantitative production planning problem. The lean objectives are to increase awareness of ethical dilemmas specific to operations research and management science, understand outcomes and trade-offs of decisions, and develop reasoning ability to justify a final solution to the situation. Dilemmas embedded in the case's production planning problem provide an opportunity to practice a technical analysis such... Details
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This case study explores transportation issues faced by a fictional shipper battling rising transportation costs, declining delivery service levels and the resulting unhappy customers. As MAP employees search for solutions, they discover Manly Terminal LLC, a biofuels-based storage and transloading facility located in rural Iowa, which enables modal shifts of ethanol from truck to rail. This case illustrates the key challenges facing Midwestern agricultural shippers and encourages ... Details
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The Megamart case study adresses demand planning challenges that retailers often face in categories that have bulky, seasonal, imported products. Historical point-of-sale data on gas grill SKUs is provided for analisis and developing appropriate product flow plan that meets the needs of all retail supply chain stakeholders.
Written by Rodney Thomas, PhD, Georgia Southern University.
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Rocket-Blast, LLC. Is a case designed to facilitate a discussion of trade-offs and cost models associated with different logistics choices presented to the manager of a production facility. As a result of increased cost awareness due to high detention fees, total cost models are considered that need to be flushed out by the student. These total cost models are combined with qualitative considerations to allow the student to come to the best decision with regards to carrier/supplier... Details
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This two-part case study illustrates the use of economic order quantity to manage conflicting performance measures across different silo'd functions in an organization. Part A requires students to assess the costs of various order quantities and quantify the concept of "robustness." Part B emphasizes managing the variables of annual demand, ordering cost, inventory carrying cost, and unit price to achieve strategic goals. The student must determine how to lower ordering costs to... Details
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AGL Energy operates in one of the most fiercely competitive markets in the world. Demand is volatile with high customer churn rates and supply procurement is real time with huge price variability. These characteristics make supply chain management difficult and the case study describes how information is used to match supply with demand.
Written by Tim Coltman, Peter Reynolds, Frank Schlosser & Alan Thorogood.
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